tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post58275195548199598..comments2015-08-26T14:50:56.582+03:00Comments on Managing Startups / Управляя стартапами: What Skolkovo is now? What will make Skolkovo a blast?Dimitri Popovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13746314149172356120noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-91553933642368763522013-11-05T21:18:34.520+02:002013-11-05T21:18:34.520+02:00and where are you?and where are you?Dimitri Popovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746314149172356120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-84610010696737884632013-04-03T10:05:03.103+03:002013-04-03T10:05:03.103+03:00Dear Dimitry, how can we discuss this topic much d...Dear Dimitry, how can we discuss this topic much deeper? Would you please contact me ASAP?Arsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04138376816140564431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-30276305346118024522010-08-24T16:01:56.414+03:002010-08-24T16:01:56.414+03:00@wrightbyname
Thank you for the post, thoughtful i...@wrightbyname<br />Thank you for the post, thoughtful indeed. What exactly in the current Skolkovo setup makes you think that their eco-system will make seed startup costs significantly lower, and that the selection decisions on behalf of Skolkovo will be optimal?<br /><br />There is a way of doing so: co-invest with office and other infrastructure, only when a startup is selected by private money.<br /><br />I do completely agree that the group factor, when startups work on the same floor, significantly reduces the risks of their failures. However, I am not persuaded that Skolkovo, being located close to Moscow, third most expensive city in the world, is an optimal location for this kind of operation. &quot;Plug and Play&quot; in Silicon Valley as well as other locations on Earth can easily compete with Skolkovo by costs, as well as by established infrastructure and access to markets/investments/talent.Dimitri Popovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746314149172356120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-17183109711851917072010-08-24T15:27:20.006+03:002010-08-24T15:27:20.006+03:00VCs rarely compete to fund start-ups; instead, tho...VCs rarely compete to fund start-ups; instead, thousands of start-ups compete for a small handful of investments - and those investments can often be against the best interests of the original founders. VC money obliges immature companies to &#39;swing for the fences&#39; in the hope of achieving big success, with the result that only one in ten projects makes money to compensate for the failures of the remaining companies in the portfolio. Skolkovo could help by fostering collaboration and by allowing companies to boot-strap in a lower cost, lower corruption environment; at least, that is the hope.wrightbynamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14981063903815950989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-60892613193246390022010-07-11T01:27:03.350+03:002010-07-11T01:27:03.350+03:00It is always hard to evaluate efficiency when talk...It is always hard to evaluate efficiency when talking about emerging economies and private-public partnerships, especially in &#39;new Russian economy&#39;.<br />One of the wide-spread approaches of running governmental programs in today&#39;s Russia is not to reach a difference but to transfer a foreign experience into Russia along with tentative attempts to implement it through similar strategies the developed countries did. One of the beloved perceptions our government executives has when developing a certain competitive strategy is that Russia needs same competitive ways and a national distinctive character, however traditionally avoided.<br /><br />Skolkovo case is not a pure business case as it involves complicated stakeholder interests and not-transparent economy.<br />So, I think there&#39;s a certain difference between pump-and-dump and make-value strategies.<br />Best regrads, VitalyVitalyhttp://ru.linkedin.com/in/matveevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5282529014393602285.post-49468791417084910152010-07-10T15:59:57.912+03:002010-07-10T15:59:57.912+03:00It is so much clear, Dimitri, that if the project&...It is so much clear, Dimitri, that if the project&#39;s data and decisions stay away from the public view, Skolkovo is doomed, for a reason quite different from those why Silicon Valley replication attempts failed in other places.<br /><br />And you are right: the key govt role is in a) creating security for the rights of entrepreneurs, investors and engineers, and b) creating gov&#39;t demand for high-tech products.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com